1, Report:
#614984
Posted Date:
Feb 15 2011
american national magazines a.n.i magazines; Overachiever Enterprises, Inc tried to take my money for magazines... renerville, North Carolina
so this nicely dressed young black man comes to my door with a great smile - and persuades me into buying magazines for him to earn points to go to college and win a 1000 bonus!! whoopty dooty! I should have known that it was a scam when I shook his hand and his palms were cold and ...
Entity
american national magazines
Categories: Non-Profit Charities
2, Report:
#435401
Posted Date:
Mar 18 2009
Overachievers Enterprises, Overachiever Enterprises Door to Door magazine sales scam Homewood Illinois
Here is the phone # for the individual that was in charge of this scam. I actually reached him once & explained my situation. He asked me how long ago I ordered the magazines (as if to say it takes a few weeks). I told him over a year ago & he said he was in the middle of something ...
Entity
Overachievers Enterprises
Categories: Sales People
3, Report:
#358094
Posted Date:
Aug 01 2008
Overachiever Enterprises,inc. Helping youths to get out of poverty and live in a nice community like yourself this women african american Homewood Illinois
in June an African-American door to door sales lady came to our neighbor and selling magazines subscriptions at reasonabe prices. we listen to her story on why she was doing this to get into a nice neighborhood such as ourselves. We listen to how bad her life was and how she wanted...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises,inc.
Categories: Sales People
4, Report:
#329680
Posted Date:
Apr 30 2008
Overachiever Enterprises, Inc. Made a sucker out of me! Homewood Illinois
Some desperate kid came to my door and needed me to order magazines through this company to help pay for his education. I certainly couldn't afford or need any of the magazines, but I thought I was helping him. I wrote a check for $70 and got nothing. When I tried calling the 800# o...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises, Inc.
Categories: Corrupt Companies
5, Report:
#326375
Posted Date:
Apr 16 2008
Overachiever Enterprises Used a sad sob story to get my money Homewood Illinois
My story is the same as everyone elses. A girl came to the door as we were headed out saying she was a single mom and was selling these magazines to earn points to go to school. She said our neighbor had just spent over $200 in magazines to donate. She even had his name on the li...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
6, Report:
#310983
Posted Date:
Feb 22 2008
OVERACHIEVER ENTERPRISES, INC. Taking advantage of kind people in thier own homes Homewood Illinois
Underprivilaged young men or women come to your door at dinnertime asking you to be the final sale of a long and trying day. This young woman may or may not have been part of the scam, it is too hard to tell. They come in to your home, offering painstaking detail about what a roug...
Entity
OVERACHIEVER ENTERPRISES, INC.
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
7, Report:
#274051
Posted Date:
Sep 11 2007
Overachiever Enterprises Bogus Magazine Subscription Company Never Sent Magazines Homewood Illinois
I bought a couple of magazines from a very believable salesperson who told me that he was trying to change his life after making some bad mistakes in the past. He told me that he needed to earn a certain number of points to achieve the next level and he even showed me a list of my ...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises
Categories: Door to Door Sales
8, Report:
#260864
Posted Date:
Jul 23 2007
Overachiever Enterprises, Overachievers Enterprises, Money Tree Check Cashing False sales of magazine subscriptions Ripoff Homewood Illinois
The scam continues. WE recently paid $60 for a magazine subsciption. We recived a receipt that got us nowhere when we tried to contact the company. We cancelled the check (cost $20 to our bank).
Money Tree Check Cashing just notified us that we owe THEM the $60 that was cashed t...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises, Overachievers Enterprises, Overachievers Enterprise
Categories: Sales People
9, Report:
#257921
Posted Date:
Jul 01 2007
Overachiever Enterprises The guy showed pictures of kids and said he was up for a job working at Safeway... Homewood Illinois
Well-dressed black male came knocking. Explained his plight of being father of 3 (showed pictures of the kids) and just trying to get on his feet. Stated he was in first place of these magazine sales and only needed a certain number of points more to be successful. Plead with my hus...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises
Categories: Door to Door Sales
10, Report:
#255486
Posted Date:
Jun 19 2007
Overachiever Enterprises FRAUDULENT DISHONEST RIPOFF Door-to-Door Magazine Sales Homewood Illinois
A young, black female came to my door in January 2006 selling magazines. She explained how she was trying to raise money for school or a school related trip...don't remember. She was very energetic and polite. I wrote a check for $58 to Overachiever Enterprises, Inc. for two maga...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises
Categories: Sales People
11, Report:
#229996
Posted Date:
Jan 11 2007
Overachiever Enterprises ripoff Door to door magazine subscription scam Homewood Illinois
A young African American, who said his name was James Strong, came to my door on Wednesday, 5/3/06 and said he was selling magazines to help himself and other underpriveledged kids get off the street and off drugs. Though skeptical at first and home from work sick I think the sinus...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises
Categories: Sales People
12, Report:
#208444
Posted Date:
Aug 29 2006
Overachiever Enterprises, ripoff Homewood Illinois
We were scammed by this company. Back in May two said college students came to our door saying that the sales would help them with their tuition, blah blah blah. We bought 2 years of some magazine for our son and so far we have not seen anything.
We have called the number on thei...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises
Categories: Sales People
13, Report:
#196767
Posted Date:
Jun 16 2006
Overachiever Enterprises door-to-door magazine sales scam; played on my sympathy for young man of color trying to better his life ripoff Homewood Illinois
Overachiever Enterprises sends young men door-to-door, selling magazine subscriptions at inflated prices, all to help these youth (in both cases at my door, African-American young men) to lift themselves out of poverty and live somewhere nice, like you do.
Sympathetic sucker, m...
Entity
Overachiever Enterprises
Categories: Door to Door Sales
14, Report:
#195645
Posted Date:
Jun 09 2006
OverAchiever Enterprises BEWARE SCAM Ripoff Homewood Illinois
Back in January of 2006, I had a young man going door to door through my neighborhood. He was working with a company called OverAchiever Enterprises selling magazine subscriptions. This company was supposedly training him to learn to communicate better and to assist him in prepari...
Entity
OverAchiever Enterprises
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers